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blues2

–noun (used with a plural verb

)

1.	any of various blue military uniforms worn by members of the U.S. armed services: dress blues.

2.	a blue uniform for work; blue work clothes: a doctor in surgical blues.

3.	Informal. police: The blues keep this neighborhood safe.

[Origin: see blue, -s³

]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
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blues1

–noun

1.	the blues, (used with a plural verb) depressed spirits; despondency; melancholy: This rainy spell is giving me the blues.

(used with a singular verb

) Jazz.

a.	a song, originating with American blacks, that is marked by the frequent occurrence of blue notes, and that takes the basic form, customarily improvised upon in performance, of a 12-bar chorus consisting of a 3-line stanza with the second line repeating the first.

b.	the genre constituting such songs.

[Origin: 1800–10, Americanism; cf. blue devils

]

—Related forms

bluesy, adjective

Thesaurus Entries

	Synonym Collection v1.1	Cite This Source
Main Entry:	blues
Part of Speech:	noun
Synonyms:	depression, dumps, melancholy, music
Source:	Synonym Collection v1.1 Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

	Roget's II: The New Thesaurus	Cite This Source
Main Entry:	gloom
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits.
Synonyms:	dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, glumness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mope, mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness
Source:	Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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blues: see jazz.

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